Timeline This song was recorded in 1969
Related session
This song was recorded during the following studio sessions:
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The "Get Back / Let It Be" sessions • Day 15
Jan 24, 1969
Other songs by Lonnie Donegan
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Unreleased song
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Unreleased song
“Digging’ My Potatoes” is a track written by Lonnie Donegan, the British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician.
On January 24, 1969, during the Beatles’ “Get Back” sessions, The Beatles played a version of “Digging’ My Potatoes,” quickly followed by two other skiffle numbers, “Hey Liley, Liley Lo” and “Rock Island Line.”
Bootlegs
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A/B Road Complete Get Back Sessions - Jan 24th, 1969 - 3 & 4
Unofficial album • Released in 2004
0:50 • Rehearsal • Jan.24 - D3-28 - Diggin My Potatoes 24.71
Performed by : Paul McCartney • Ringo Starr • John Lennon • George Harrison
Session Recording: Jan 24, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Cover versions played during the "Get Back" sessions
"Diggin' My Potatoes" was covered during The Beatles' "Get Back" sessions in January 1969. Here is the complete list of covers recorded by Paul McCartney, either alone or with other Beatles, during these sessions:
- A Shot of Rhythm and Blues
- Act Naturally
- Adagio for Strings
- All Shook Up
- Almost Grown
- Baby Let's Play House
- Baby, Come Back
- Bad Boy
- Be Bop A Lula
- Bear Cat Mama
- Besame Mucho
- Black Dog
- Blowin' In The Wind
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Bo Diddley
- Bring It On Home To Me
- Build Me Up Buttercup
- Bye Bye Love
- C'mon Marianne
- Cannonball
- Cathy's Clown
- Chopsticks
- Cocaine Blues
- Crackin' Up
- Crying, Waiting, Hoping
- Deed I Do
- Devil In Her Heart
- Diggin' My Potatoes
- Dizzy Miss Lizzy
- Domino
- Don't Be Cruel
- Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
- F.B.I.
- Five Feet High and Rising
- Fools Like Me
- Forty Days
- Frère Jacques
- Friendship
- Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea
- Going Up the Country
- Gone, Gone, Gone
- Good Rockin' Tonight
- Great Balls of Fire
- Hallelujah, I Love Her So
- Hare Krishna Mantra
- Hava Nagila
- Hello, Dolly!
- Hey Good Lookin'
- Hey Liley, Liley Lo
- Hey Little Girl
- Hi-Heel Sneakers
- High School Confidential
- Hitch Hike
- Honey Hush
- Honky Tonk
- House Of The Rising Sun
- I Got Stung
- I Want You
- I'm A Man
- I'm Ready (aka Rocker)
- I'm Talking About You
- I've Been Good To You
- In The Middle Of An Island
- It Ain't Me Babe
- It's Only Make Believe
- Jenny, Jenny
- Johnny B. Goode
- Kansas City
- Knee Deep In The Blues
- Lady Jane
- Last Train to San Fernando
- Lawdy Miss Clawdy
- Leaning on a Lamp-post
- Let's Dance
- Let's Twist Again
- Like A Rolling Stone
- Little Demon
- Little Queenie
- Long Tall Sally
- Lost John
- Lotta Lovin’
- Love Is A Swingin' Thing
- Lucille
- MacArthur Park
- Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
- Maybe Baby
- Maybellene
- Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
- Midnight Special (Prisoner's Song)
- Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)
- Milk Cow Blues
- Miss Ann
- Money (That's What I Want)
- Move It
- My Baby Left Me
- New Orleans
- Not Fade Away
- On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
- One Way Out
- Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
- Party
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- Queen Of The Hop
- Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo
- Rip It Up
- Rock and Roll Music
- Rock Island Line
- Rock-a-bye Baby
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Save the Last Dance for Me
- School Days (Ring Ring Goes The Bell)
- Shake, Rattle And Roll
- Shazam!
- She Said Yeah
- Short Fat Fanny
- Shout
- Singing The Blues
- Slippin' And Slidin'
- Soldier of Love
- Speak To Me
- Stand By Me
- Sure to Fall (In Love with You)
- Take These Chains From My Heart
- Take This Hammer
- Tales Of Frankie Rabbit
- Talking Guitar Blues
- Tea For Two Cha Cha
- Tennessee
- That'll Be The Day
- That's All Right Mama
- The Fool
- The Hippy Hippy Shake
- The Peanut Vendor
- The Saints (When the Saints Go Marching In)
- The Third Man Theme
- The Tracks Of My Tears
- The Walk
- Thirty Days
- Three Cool Cats
- Tiger Rag
- Till There Was You
- To Kingdom Come
- Torchy, The Battery Boy
- True Love
- Twenty Flight Rock
- Twist and Shout
- Vacation Time
- Watch Your Step
- What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?
- What'd I Say
- What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)
- When You're Drunk You Think Of Me
- Where Have You Been (All My Life)
- Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
- You Really Got A Hold On Me
- You Win Again
- You're So Good to Me
- You've Got Me Thinking
- Your True Love
